Scope

Nanoalloys are bi- or multi-component metallic nanoparticles. The tremendous growth of interest in nanoalloys comes from the fact that their chemical and physical properties can be tuned by varying the composition and degree of chemical ordering, as well as the size of the nanoparticle. This makes nanoalloys suitable for a wealth of technological applications, as in data storage and optoelectronic devices, chemical and biological sensors, fuel cells, catalysts, etc., in which nanoalloys can be more efficient or less expensive than single-metal nanoparticles.

Nanoalloys are also quite interesting from a fundamental science point of view due to the complexity of their structures and properties and the interplay between them. The meeting will focus on the following topics:

1- Equilibrium properties: structure and environment effects

•     Size dependent nanoalloy phase diagrams and transitions
•     Effects of the environment
•     Strain engineering in binary and ternary nanoalloys

2- Out-of-equilibrium effects: kinetics, mobility and environment

•     Growth kinetics
•     Ageing: from metastable initial state to equilibrium
•     Collective effects in assemblies of nanoalloys

3- Nanoalloy properties and their relationship with structure and environment

•     Catalytic properties
•     Magnetic properties
•     Optical properties